People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of the 'where have you been all my life?' variety.

Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.